Although the tallies from Election Day provided citizens and candidates with a clear picture of the winners, Tuesday provided the final numbers.

In Kinston, B.J. Murphy was officially the leading vote-getter in the mayor’s race, while Wynn Whittington and Robbie Swinson had the most votes for city council.

Murphy officially had 1,863 votes, 404 more than Clark’s total, while Whittington and Swinson each had more than 550 votes over third-place finisher John Nix.

“I’m excited and glad to start a new chapter of my life,” Whittington said. “I’m very grateful the citizens of Kinston have confidence in me to represent them. I’m glad the election is behind us, and now we can focus on the issues. I’m ready to work with the council, mayor and everyone else to get things done.”

Dana King, director of the Lenoir County Board of Elections, said canvases are necessary to make sure each vote counted in the elections.

“The state and national boards canvas to finalize results,” King said. “We’ll have provisional ballots coming in an hour in advance on Election Day and count them later, but we didn’t have any this year.”

There were 92 curbside votes unaccounted for between the Nov. 5 results and Tuesday’s final tally, according to King.

“Anyone voting curbside would have their votes counted either that night or the morning after,” King said. “They’re registered voters who can’t vote inside of the precincts, usually because of disabilities.”

Volunteers of the 13 precincts in Lenoir County said they had minimal issues with the process on Election Day.

“It was good,” Sandy Smith, who volunteered at the Kinston 3 precinct, said. “It was slow at times, but overall it was steady. I didn’t have any problems, and as long as the board is willing to have me, I’ll do it again next time.”

Tommy Pharo, a board member of the Lenoir County Board of Elections, said the election was the first one he covered, and he enjoyed the work ethic throughout.

“I was impressed with the staff and poll workers,” Pharo said. “The professionalism of the ladies and gentlemen were great. I visited all of the precincts in Lenoir County, and this election was a good one to learn on.”

Although there was some criticism about results not being shown until around 10 p.m. compared to other areas — Greene, Jones, and Pitt counties all had final tallies up before 9:15 p.m. — King said the staff worked as hard as they could.

She also said next year may take longer because of the additional amount of offices open locally and statewide.

“There will be more candidates next May and next November,” King said. “It will take longer to tally the figures, and it took about an hour and 15 minutes to get everything in. Then, it takes me a few minutes to get the numbers on the Internet. There have been some nights where I’ve been here until 11 or 12, so to have all of the totals in by around 9:30 was great.”

In Pink Hill, Mike Hill received 56 votes and Debra Grady had 42, increasing each of their totals by one. Marion Mitchell, who had 39 votes on Election Day, ended up losing by three.

In case there was a tie in any race, the state board had a solution on breaking it.

“We just keep it simple,” Pharo said. “We would just flip a coin to determine the winner.”

Greene County experienced just 11 unread votes in the race for Snow Hill commissioner. Geraldine Shackleford, Robert Taylor Jr. and Rosa Wilkes were elected.

In Jones County, there were no additional votes. In Trenton, Charles Jones, Danny Blackwell and Robert Horvath will represent the town council.

In Maysville, Edward Waltz will be the mayor, with Schumata Brown, David Chatman, Janet Baker, Bobby Flowers and Elaine White as the town commissioners.

Junious Smith III can be reached at 252-559-1077 and Junious.Smith@Kinston.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JuniousSmithIII.

Here are the official numbers for the opposed races in Lenoir, Greene and Jones counties (winners in bold):

Lenoir County

Kinston mayor

Ralph Clark 1,459

John Marks 714

B.J. Murphy 1,863

Kinston city council

Teddra Hussey-Smith 682

Marc McKnight 234

Adrien Meadows 84

John Nix 1,626

Lennie Peterson 124

Robert Swinson 2,207

Carol Tokarski 153

Wynn Whittington 2,239

Pink Hill town board

Debra Grady 42

Mike Hill 56

Marion Mitchell 39

Robin King Whaley 21

Greene County

Snow Hill commissioners

Rebecca Scarborough 342

Geraldine Shackleford 393

Robert Taylor Jr. 384

Roger Whitson 272

Rosa Wilkes 367

Jones County

Trenton commissioners

Danny Blackwell 42

Robert Horvath 39

Charles Jones 54

Daniel Johnson Willis 17

Maysville mayor

Phillip Tooker 55

Edward Waltz 108

Maysville commissioners

Janet Baker 113

Schumata Brown 124

David Chatman 123

Bobby Flowers 105

Brenda Foy 88

Rick Gawlowski 87

Dan Ryan 92

Elaine White 102

Sources: Lenoir County Board of Elections, Greene County Board of Elections and Jones County Board of Elections